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I totally understand that IRC has issues, but there's really nothing that beats just being able to hit '/j #channel' on freenode and it's probably there and my
by esotericn 7y ago
I totally understand that IRC has issues, but there's really nothing that beats just being able to hit '/j #channel' on freenode and it's probably there and my client works how I expect it to.
The fragmentation pretty much excludes me from switching away. It's completely impractical to maintain notifications / check new messages / reasonably understand the interface of 5+ different clients (on multiple machines too!), so the theoretical benefit of using a new platform doesn't exist.
There's what - Gitter, Slack, Discord, Mattermost, Matrix? I'm sure there are more.
How do people actually manage this? Do people really have 5 of these clients open, or do they just arbitrarily pick one? Slack, when I've used it, has been a 'per organization' thing, can you have multiple orgs open at once or do you need a tab for each of those?
I just find the whole thing bonkers. IRC wasn't an arbitrary choice ten years ago, it was a defacto standard.
- ptman 7y agoMatrix has bridges. So you can access gitter, slack, discord (and I think mattermost) via you matrix client (e.g. riot)
- johntash 7y ago> How do people actually manage this? Do people really have 5 of these clients open, or do they just arbitrarily pick one? Slack, when I've used it, has been a 'per organization' thing, can you have multiple orgs open at once or do you need a tab for each of those? You can definitely have multiple orgs/communities/whatever open in slack. But you still have to make an account for each one, so it's no where near "/join #someproject". It's more like "Go to invite.someprojectthatusesslack.tld, put in an e-mail for slack to send you an invite, go find the e-mail, register for a new slack user using that e-mail, login to the project's slack and find channels to join"